Charter parents - does not being close to friends etc impact kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another person for whom it doesn't bother me at all. This is DC. There are neighborhood playgrounds near most people, and you meet families and like-aged kids there for younger kids. Then there are activities and friends from schools for older kids.

More importantly though, I believe in why charters were founded: to give an alternative to substandard neighborhood schools to those who can't live IB for Deal and Wilson. So if I have to make more of an effort to schedule/get to playdates, I am totally ok with that.

Person asking this original question, why don't you put your effort into actually improving the very neighborhood DCPS schools you reference in your original question, instead of trying to make a case for something that will not do a thing to make anything better in this city except maybe for a very small number of families.

Or, another way of saying that is, do your kids go to your neighborhood school? Whatever you're trying to do here with this question, why don't you focus instead on why you aren't going to your neighborhood school and what it would take to improve it so you would go?

Are you going to your neighborhood school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another person for whom it doesn't bother me at all. This is DC. There are neighborhood playgrounds near most people, and you meet families and like-aged kids there for younger kids. Then there are activities and friends from schools for older kids.

More importantly though, I believe in why charters were founded: to give an alternative to substandard neighborhood schools to those who can't live IB for Deal and Wilson. So if I have to make more of an effort to schedule/get to playdates, I am totally ok with that.

Person asking this original question, why don't you put your effort into actually improving the very neighborhood DCPS schools you reference in your original question, instead of trying to make a case for something that will not do a thing to make anything better in this city except maybe for a very small number of families.

Or, another way of saying that is, do your kids go to your neighborhood school? Whatever you're trying to do here with this question, why don't you focus instead on why you aren't going to your neighborhood school and what it would take to improve it so you would go?

Are you going to your neighborhood school?

No, I go to a school in a whole different ward than we live. But I'm also not online trying to get neighborhood preference for charters using the happy convenience of living as close as your neighborhood school as a fishing line.

I wouldn't have gotten into the charter I go to if not for the random lottery, and nothing about my situation changes exactly why charters exist: to provide more opportunities to everyone. Not just those who live close enough to the school. If OP wants to make a case for convenience and living close to schoolmates, neighborhood DCPS school is the obvious choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another person for whom it doesn't bother me at all. This is DC. There are neighborhood playgrounds near most people, and you meet families and like-aged kids there for younger kids. Then there are activities and friends from schools for older kids.

More importantly though, I believe in why charters were founded: to give an alternative to substandard neighborhood schools to those who can't live IB for Deal and Wilson. So if I have to make more of an effort to schedule/get to playdates, I am totally ok with that.

Person asking this original question, why don't you put your effort into actually improving the very neighborhood DCPS schools you reference in your original question, instead of trying to make a case for something that will not do a thing to make anything better in this city except maybe for a very small number of families.

Or, another way of saying that is, do your kids go to your neighborhood school? Whatever you're trying to do here with this question, why don't you focus instead on why you aren't going to your neighborhood school and what it would take to improve it so you would go?

Are you going to your neighborhood school?

No, I go to a school in a whole different ward than we live. But I'm also not online trying to get neighborhood preference for charters using the happy convenience of living as close as your neighborhood school as a fishing line.

I wouldn't have gotten into the charter I go to if not for the random lottery, and nothing about my situation changes exactly why charters exist: to provide more opportunities to everyone. Not just those who live close enough to the school. If OP wants to make a case for convenience and living close to schoolmates, neighborhood DCPS school is the obvious choice.

And PS it speaks volumes that OP doesn't attend his/her neighborhood school either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another person for whom it doesn't bother me at all. This is DC. There are neighborhood playgrounds near most people, and you meet families and like-aged kids there for younger kids. Then there are activities and friends from schools for older kids.

More importantly though, I believe in why charters were founded: to give an alternative to substandard neighborhood schools to those who can't live IB for Deal and Wilson. So if I have to make more of an effort to schedule/get to playdates, I am totally ok with that.

Person asking this original question, why don't you put your effort into actually improving the very neighborhood DCPS schools you reference in your original question, instead of trying to make a case for something that will not do a thing to make anything better in this city except maybe for a very small number of families.

Or, another way of saying that is, do your kids go to your neighborhood school? Whatever you're trying to do here with this question, why don't you focus instead on why you aren't going to your neighborhood school and what it would take to improve it so you would go?

Are you going to your neighborhood school?

No, I go to a school in a whole different ward than we live. But I'm also not online trying to get neighborhood preference for charters using the happy convenience of living as close as your neighborhood school as a fishing line.

I wouldn't have gotten into the charter I go to if not for the random lottery, and nothing about my situation changes exactly why charters exist: to provide more opportunities to everyone. Not just those who live close enough to the school. If OP wants to make a case for convenience and living close to schoolmates, neighborhood DCPS school is the obvious choice.

And PS it speaks volumes that OP doesn't attend his/her neighborhood school either.

Meh. Or it says that her family chose a livable sized house and then found themselves looking for a decent school. Much to their surprise thousands of families - some of whom they know - have chosen charter schools. It opens up possibilities. Some families are smart NOT to buy in upper NW. Heartbreaking? But, true.